Reseller Pricing

[Grrilla]

A friend of my cousin needs some webspace and has asked me to accomodate him. Although I have an eNom resellers acct and use ResellerZoom for server space, providing hosting for someone else is a new experience.

The site is very off the wall- for example, it has been referenced and gets visited by the Howard Stern Show.
It receives approx 100 visits/da. It is offline ATM, and I vaguely remember that the reason for this is that the webmaster had a goin w/ the host because the servers went down a few times for extended periods and ultimately, the host totally flaked.

He says he needs 10 Gigs of space and a monthly bandwidth allowancece of 100 Gig. (His site has an abundant amt of graphics, unusual videos etc. and as I understand it, he's got some expansion plans.)

I'll be visiting here w/ more questions, but for starters:
- How much should I be charging? Going rate? Friendly rate?
- Do I set up a package and than an account for the domain the same as I do for my own sites or is a subaccount involved? I use cPanel.

Thanks.

 

[CrazyTech]

Well the rate is up to you - but knowing what you've said thus far, make sure that you charge an appropriate amount since he'll be using probably a sizable amount of what he is paying for. I'd be charging in the $40-$50, personally speaking for such a package. Perhaps a little less or even a little more. 10 GB diskspace is a lot.

With your cPanel account, do you have WHM? (I'm assuming you have their reseller plan.)

 

[ViolentJ]

of course pricing is up to you. But take into mind that your using a reseller acct and you dont have your own server. The host your getting your reseller from may decide to suspend his acct or suspend your reseller acct if his bandwidth levels get to high. be shure to cantact your host about it first. if they say it ok i would offer him a price in the ball park of $45. but seeing as he is your cousin you may want to offer him a discount but dont make it to cheap.